ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,825, issued on May 5, was assigned to HG INSIGHTS INC. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"List-based entity name detection" was invented by Robert J. Fox (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "List-based entity name detection implementations are described that detect entity names in electronic textural documents. In one implementation, unknown entity names are detected. In another implementation, ambiguous entity names are detected and disambiguated. In yet another implementation, generic entity names are detected and associated with an applicable species entity name."

The patent was filed on Dec. 12, 2023, under Application No....